Fire Emblem Awakening Review

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Fire Emblem Awakening is a tactical RPG for the 3DS that costs $39.99.

The gameplay consists of players starting the game with a customizable character to take on turn based battles on a playing field with a certain amount of troops and opposing troops. With a goal of defeating their enemies with a normal win condition of defeating the opposing team. In normal playmode any troops lost on the players team will remain dead adding a level of difficulty that makes for a challenging game.

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Pros

Pro

Interesting use of relationships

Users can pair certain male female characters in battle to improve their relationship. Once it reaches a certain point the characters can breed offspring who then can be used as more troops in the team. This makes for an ingenious way to build up ones roster as well as adds a relationship aspect to the story and gameplay.

Pro

Very customizable

Not only is ones troops customizable through their looks, armor and weapon choices but there are many aspects of the game itself that can be changed such as the voice work or skipping cut scenes.

Cons

Con

Amount of options may be too much to grasp

While not the worst thing in the world there are quite a lot of options in this game. A forging system for weapons a special power system for all characters may not ever be touched in a playthrough making one ask why they were included. On top of this they may be difficult to grasp the full mechanics upon first look and so may make for systems people do not really want to explore.